I promised not to be mean....
So I won't be mean, but I'll still share the story.
Yesterday, while I was out making a delivery, a gentleman came into the shop asking to use our telephone. You see, we are frequently asked by friends and customers if they could use our phone to call in for repairs to their phones or hydro. This is not unusal as we live in the Black Hole of Ontario where there is no cell service, limited high speed internet, and absolutely millions of black flies. (Actually, the black flies have nothing to do with the story; we just have a lot of black flies and they are here so early this year. Makes for a good excuse to stay inside and knit instead of working in the yard.)
So back to the phone story. The gentleman introduces himself as an employee of Bell Canada's switching station that is located across the street from us, and he needed to call Hydro One to tell them his power was out. Since the power was out, their phones weren't working, he couldn't call on his cell phone as there was no service, and there isn't a phone booth anywhere close by. Why didn't their phones work? They need electricy to run, and it seems they didn't have a plug-in non electrical phone in the place, or a generator. Both items that are a necessity when you live up here.
Now, isn't that what Bell Repairs asks us when we call in to report no phone service? Have you checked the phone jacks with old style phone? Um, is this a case of "Do as I say, not do as I do?" Truth be told, when people call in from here to report no phone service on their line, they are usually asked, "If you have no service, how are you calling in?" But that's a whole other issue.
When he came back in to thank us for the use of the phone, I told him I couldn't wait to blog about it. He said "Now, don't be mean."
I wasn't mean, was I?
Yesterday, while I was out making a delivery, a gentleman came into the shop asking to use our telephone. You see, we are frequently asked by friends and customers if they could use our phone to call in for repairs to their phones or hydro. This is not unusal as we live in the Black Hole of Ontario where there is no cell service, limited high speed internet, and absolutely millions of black flies. (Actually, the black flies have nothing to do with the story; we just have a lot of black flies and they are here so early this year. Makes for a good excuse to stay inside and knit instead of working in the yard.)
So back to the phone story. The gentleman introduces himself as an employee of Bell Canada's switching station that is located across the street from us, and he needed to call Hydro One to tell them his power was out. Since the power was out, their phones weren't working, he couldn't call on his cell phone as there was no service, and there isn't a phone booth anywhere close by. Why didn't their phones work? They need electricy to run, and it seems they didn't have a plug-in non electrical phone in the place, or a generator. Both items that are a necessity when you live up here.
Now, isn't that what Bell Repairs asks us when we call in to report no phone service? Have you checked the phone jacks with old style phone? Um, is this a case of "Do as I say, not do as I do?" Truth be told, when people call in from here to report no phone service on their line, they are usually asked, "If you have no service, how are you calling in?" But that's a whole other issue.
When he came back in to thank us for the use of the phone, I told him I couldn't wait to blog about it. He said "Now, don't be mean."
I wasn't mean, was I?
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